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Program Results Reports describe RWJF’s interest in the area and strategy for addressing the problem for those working in the field or interested in undertaking similar efforts. They explain the problem addressed; the activities undertaken; the results or findings from the work; lessons for the field; any post-grant activities—by the grantee or RWJF—and they include a bibliography of material produced during the project or program.

The Cash & Counseling program created a cost-effective model of participant-directed services to improve the health of frail older adults and other people with disabilities and contributed to national policy change on participant-directed services.

After referrals from EMTs, the Citizen Action Program of United Way of Greater KC connects vulnerable patients with non-emergency medical and social services, helping these individuals to better health and preventing future non-urgent calls to 911.

A research team led by Stephen M. Shortell and Lawrence P. Casalino tracked the extent to which physician organizations used evidence-based care management processes to treat patients with asthma, congestive heart failure, depression, and diabetes.

The Jacob Perlow Hospice Corporation developed and implemented a home-based and hospital-based program to provide hospice services tailored to the special needs of New York City residents with end-stage Alzheimer’s.

United Jewish Appeal Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York provided support services to elderly residents at two government-assisted naturally occurring retirement communities in New York City.

Barnabas Health in northern New Jersey developed the Transitions in Care program to improve transitions for frail adults age 65 and older with dementia and at least one other condition from the hospital to their home or a long-term care facility.

To combat isolation and loneliness among vulnerable individuals, including the disabled and frail elderly, the PLAN Institute for Caring Citizenship and Tyze Personal Networks developed Web-based social support networks called Tyze.

From 2010 to 2013, Sickness Prevention Achieved through Regional Collaboration (SPARC) worked with public health groups and design firms to plan 5over50, which will seek to spur older adults to tap five key preventive health services.